Lesson Planning with Me!: Journal Ideas

Lesson Planning with Me

Hello! I teach an integrated preschool classroom, which means I am responsible for students ages three to five with special needs of all types as well as typical developing students. My students range in ability from a toddler to a typical kindergartener. Therefore, my activities must be able to reach a wide range and be easily adjusted for multiple ability levels.

I created this blog as a way to keep track of the fantastic ideas I have gathered over the years. Because I just randomly add activities to the blog, use the search, standard list, or theme list on the left side to find the activities you are after!

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Monday, May 30, 2011

Journal Ideas

*Read a story. Ask the children a comprehension question and write down the response. Then ask the child to draw a picture illustrating his/her response. Copy the cover of the book on one side of the paper and allow the child to draw on the other.

*Take a picture of the child doing something in the classroom. Ask him/her to dictate what he/she was doing.

*Copy an action picture (or comic) onto a sheet of paper. Ask the child to dictate a story to go along with the picture.

*Choose your own ending: Begin reading a story aloud to your child. Then just before the end of the story, stop reading and tell your child that she is going to create her own ending for the story. Provide an example by adding another sentence to the last one you read. Then invite your child to continue telling the story so that it concludes any way she likes.

*Cover ideas:
1. Letter stamps: sponge letter paint stampers with paint or letter stampers and an ink pad
2. Letter stickers: both upper- and lowercase
3. Pre-cut letters: kids find, arrange in order, glue to page

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